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New, online Old Bailey
By Will 1 month ago, 1 Comment »
Well, this is just brilliant: records from the Old Bailey stretching back to 1674 have been put online. The marvel of tinterweb, isn’t it, but the flood of visitors has crashed the website. Keep an eye on it though: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org.uk/
I searched for cricket, but clearly it hadn’t occurred to the evil gentry of the 18th century to use a bat on someone. It’s quite in vogue nowadays, by tattooed wifebeaters and the like.
… Noon, and we went into Moorfields, and play’d at Cricket till ’twas dark. Then we came through the Tenter-grounds, and through Sun-street, and bid Akins Good-Night, and he cross’d the Way from us, and went
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… he swears to is the Day when the Women play’d the Cricket-Match. This Woman went with me into the City for Mr Locke’s Linen to the Back of the Royal Exchange, and stay’d there till 10 o’Clock; it was of a Mo .
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… perty. Prisoner’s Defence. I was going to see the cricket-playing in the fields; I went up to this girl’s door, and asked for a halfpennyworth of apples; she said, they did not sell apples; then I went into
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